Limitless

I close my eyes for a while, and when I open them again the President is on the TV screen, sitting at his desk. I can’t bear to turn the sound up, and as I study him closely, and see the alert, gorged MDT expression in his eyes, I realize that I can’t bear to look at him any more either. I reach out for the remote control and flick over to another channel, cartoons.

I gaze down at the keyboard of the laptop. My head is pounding now, and getting steadily worse. It’s time to shut off the computer and put it aside. I look over at the small table next to the bed, and at the plastic bottle on it containing 150 paracetamol tablets. Then I look at the keyboard once more and, wishing the command had a wider, smarter application – wishing it could somehow mean what it says – press ‘save’.

Also by Alan Glynn

Winterland

Alan Glynn is a graduate of Trinity College, where he studied English literature. He is married with two children and lives in Dublin.

All characters in this novel are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

LIMITLESS. Copyright © 2001 by Alan Glynn. All rights reserved. For information, address Picador, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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Originally published in Great Britain under the title The Dark Fields by Little, Brown & Company

First published in the United States by Bloomsbury USA

First Picador Edition: March 2011